What is a Personal Narrative?
This video explains what a personal narrative is, where stories come from, and where stories can be found.
Getting Started
This video explains the process of gathering ideas to write a story.
Making it Better: Ideas
This video explains how to identify the theme or main idea of a story and make a personal narrative better by adding details.
Making it Better: Ways to Hook Your Reader
This video explains and models techniques that can be used to make a narrative more interesting.
Making it Better: Elaborating
This video explains how to use writing techniques to allow the reader of a story to experience the thoughts and feelings the writer wishes to communicate.
Making it Better: Dialogue and Internal Thought
This video explains how to use dialogue and internal thought to make narrative writing better.
Making it Better: Word Choice
This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on word choice within a personal narrative.
Making it Better: Sentences
This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on the types of sentences that have been used.
Making it Better: Finishing Strong
This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on the ending of a story.
Making it Better: Organizing
This video describes how to go through writing and reflect on the organization of a story.
Finishing Touches
This video will describe how to check the writing for clarity and flow.